[KMSFA2]

@Eagle84 - I can understand why you would suggest the classification be similar to what the KHSAA does. However, middle schools are very different state wide. You may have personal knowledge of the schools in your area and your idea might apply nicely there. We don't have the ability to apply the KHSAA rules to middle school for several reasons.

For instance, there are counties that have multiple feeders to one single largely classified high school (Scott County for example) where not all of the middle schools participate in the KMSFA. Scott County Middle does, but Royal Springs and Georgetown do not. I don't know what classification Scott County Middle even is, but for the purpose of this discussion let's say if they were a D2 by the KMSFA classification, by your reasoning (since Scott County High is a 6A high school) then we should bump Scott County Middle up? Even though those other 2/3 worth of middle school football players in their county don't participate?

We made the rules as fairly as we could lay them out. We use an official document (the KDE SAARS report annually) to determine exact classifications.

As for the "favoritism" comment, none of our volunteer board members coaches at the middle school level anymore. I think we go out of our way to stay impartial. I would also say you would be hard pressed to find a head coach that we deal with who would say we aren't as fair and consistent as we can be. Not saying they always agree with us, but I would venture to say that we operate above board because of the commitment we all have to see this association remain successful for ALL student-athletes state wide.